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OK, I talk to my spiritual guides, I admit it. These are the spirits on the other side of the veil who are here to help you through this life. Our interaction reminds me of a game I once participated in. This activity involved groups of two. One person is blindfolded and the other is the guide. A bunch of colored balls are scattered around the floor. Each team is assigned a specific color ball to collect. The non blind folded person has to tell the blind folded partner which direction to turn, when to bend down, where the ball is for them to pickup and they also make sure their partner walks around the scattered balls so they won’t slip on one and fall down. All this is going on with several teams playing at the same time. The blind folded partner must listen carefully to hear their partner’s instructions over the other noise and then follow the instructions so they don’t run into someone or step on a ball. The guide may not touch the blind person.

This is often how I feel when I communicate with my guides. There is often noise and distractions going on and I have a hard time hearing them. Other time, I feel so distant from them and communication just doesn’t happen. But some times the line is clear and I can ask questions and get answers. Some times we have some deep conversations, other times I just whine and complain. They seem to be patient with me.

How do I know they are really there and it not just my imagination? For one thing the answers come a lot quicker than when I have to think up an answer. It is like the answer is right there as soon as I ask the question. When I answer my own questions, I have to think and mull it over a while. The answers my guides provide usually take me by surprise; they are not answers I anticipate. Another thing that makes me believe in them is the little things that I ask from them that are performed. For example I met some one who consults your spirit guides to creates special necklaces just for you. I purchases one from her then unbeknownst to her I asked my guides to include a blue stone on my necklace as I like blue and turquoise sprang to mind. But I did not want to limit what my guides would do as each stone has different properties and purposes so I told them turquoise would be nice but any blue stone would be good. When I received the necklace there was my turquoise interspersed among amethyst! The person who made the necklace later told me that there was a debate going on between using the turquoise or another blue stone and the turquoise won.

The world is so much more interesting when you realize there is more depth to life than what we see here on this plane. Just remember you have help. You just need to ask.

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Yesterday I talked about coincidences as being the result of your mind shoving the more pertinent info into your consciousness.

Could there be something more involved? Could coincidences be the result of a spiritual or behind the scenes work?

Just so you know, I do believe in a spiritual life. I talk to my guides and angels and yes I do hear them talk back to me. It is all in my head, I don’t hear an actual physical voice so some may say it is just another aspect of me talking and maybe it is. We are all connected and may be more intimately connected than we realize on the physical surface plane.

I suggest that you do an experiment. Think about two different problems you are having for which you would like a solution. Talk to your guides, you can do this out loud or in your head. Tell them that you appreciate them being there and willing to help you then tell them that you would like help in solving a problem. Then tell them about one of the problems you want help with. Then tell them you have a second problem but you want them to stay away from that particular problem until you specifically ask for help on it. Then note which problem is solved first. You must also note exactly how you asked for help with the first one. How you word it is important because the solution will appear and you will invariably say that wasn’t what I wanted but if you go back and look at your words the solution will fit exactly. It is almost like they are showing their sense of humor by solving it in a way that was not even remotely anticipated.

Good luck and let me know what happens.

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Why do we grumble in the midst of our prosperity?

We have been doing this for thousands of years. Exodus 15-17 tells of the Israelites grumbling when they were getting low on supplies and when they could not see where the water and food would be coming from. I do the same thing except instead of grumbling I panic.

Maybe this is a human tendency. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, food is right up there with oxygen, water and constant body temperature. These physiological needs must be met before you can move to the next level of needs which concerns safety.

When our basic needs are threatened we panic. If we are in a position where we have some but (we think) not enough, we grumble. Back to the Israelite story; God was taking care of them. Water was provided in a miraculous way and then later they forgot that and started living in scarcity mindset and started grumbling again. When manna was provided there were still some who did not trust that it would come every day and tried to save for the next day but it rotted.

I keep going through this same trust/distrust in my life. Last year, I did an experiment. All year I noted my emotional outlook: was I being positive or slipping into a scarcity mentality. What was interesting was that I would sometimes slip into the scarcity, panic mode, when everything was OK and the physical would follow the mental/emotional state, money would start to get tight and I would be barely scraping by, having to live on credit cards. I would then give myself a talking to and change my outlook. With the more positive outlook, even when there was no reason for it, the physical world around me started changing. The flow of money would open up and my needs would be met.

In Late September I decided to have a talk with my Guides and Angels. I said I wanted proof that I would be taken care of and everything would be OK. The following week, about October 7, I received a check for $115.12 from a credit card company saying they had charged too much interest. That was strange, have you ever heard of a card company doing that? Then a couple of weeks later, about October 16, I received another check from this same company saying they had not given me all the rebate money I was entitled to. This was weird.

I decided to have another talk with my guides. I told them a hundred dollars here and two hundred there was all well and good but it wasn’t going to pay the rent. I needed thousands.

Well on October 26, our local paper printed a supplement listing people for whom the state was holding unclaimed money. My husbands name was on it! Monday morning we found that we had $3692.16 available to us from some property we had sold 12 years before!

Now whenever I start to feel nervous, I remember that incident and decide to trust the process. There is help on the other side if we will just ask and trust.

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This Sunday’s book review is on Healing With The Angels
by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.

I have a copy of this book and I often pull it off my bookshelf to consult it. I have Post-it flags marking special pages through out the book.
Some of my flagged pages include:
Prayer to Archangel Michael for Increased Energy – Most of us can use that one.
Another page marks a prayer to the Angels for cravings for unhealthful foods and drinks.
How about a prayer for Increased business Opportunities,
Here is a good one, stress management. Not only do I have that page flagged but I also have some of it highlighted. My highlighted words of wisdom are “All pressure is self imposed” “Stress is of our own choosing” and further down the page is some good advice “…the importance of setting our intentions for the day, first thing in the morning. Decide, ‘What do I want today to be like’ and it will be done”(page 73)

But what I mainly use the book for is the Number Sequences from the Angels in Chapter 12.

One day I was in my kitchen feeling very mad and upset about how badly things were going, dwelling on the negative so to speak. I glanced at the clock on the stove it said 11:11, I looked at the Microwave, and it said 11:11. I decided to get Doreen’s book. The sequence of ones says to “Monitor your thoughts carefully, and be sure to only think about what you want, not what you don’t want. … The 111 is like the bright light of a flashbulb. It means that the universe has just taken a snapshot of your thoughts and is manifesting them into form. Are you pleased with what thoughts the universe has captured?” Boy I changed my thoughts right then, I did not want more of the negative in my life.

I’ll give one more example. Last February, I was going through a dark night of the soul episode. I was firmly rooted in a scarcity mentality and was about to throw in the towel on my own business dream and look for a low paying job. I just could not see how the bills would get paid for the next month. My husband gave me a pep talk and convinced me to work harder on my business. The next morning when I got up I weighed myself and the numbers showed back at me 122.2. I had never seen so many twos in a row; in fact I had not weighed that little before or since. So I decided to look in chapter 12 of this book.

Doreen says that three 2’s in a row means “Your newly planted ideas are beginning to grow into reality. Keep watering and nurturing them, and soon they will push through the soil so you can see evidence of your manifestation. In other words, don’t quit five minutes before the miracle. Your manifestation is soon going to be evident to you, so keep up the good work! Keep holding positive thoughts, keep affirming. And continue visualizing.” Wow, that was the positive reinforcement that I needed. I did have the best year that I have ever had with my business and things are still happening.

Recently I have been seeing fives in sequence. Waking in the middle of the night and seeing 5:55 on the clock, things like that. Doreen indicates that this means a major life change is upon me. This has me a little nervous (review my articles about change).

This is a very interesting and useful book for me and I think it will be for you too.

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A child who wakes up from a nightmare is often comforted by their mom with the words “Don’t be afraid”.

There are many passages in the Bible that start with “Do not be afraid”. Usually when and angel appears or God’s voice is heard.

Those words are meant to be comforting and calming. They mean that no intentional harm is coming to you.

Using reverse logic, does this mean that we should be afraid if we happen to see an angel and they don’t say, “do not be afraid”? I don’t really think of angels as being something to fear.

I use to want to see a ghost, but then I decided I would probably be scared out of my wits if I did. I have never heard of a ghost saying, “don’t be afraid”. So I decided I would rather see an angel. Then I started realizing that there are many angels among us. Any one who gives of themselves or their resources to help some one in need is an angel in my book. There are angels all around us. I can even be an angel to some one else.

Have you ever been in a situation where you needed help and some one appeared to help you? You had an angel moment.

Several years ago, my car died as I was making a turn so I pulled to the side of the road and tried to start it again. Nothing happened. I was trying to decide what to do. I asked Archangel Michael to help out as I had read he was good with computers. But as I turned the key again nothing happened. I called my husband who was out of State, as if he could do anything at the time, just the comforting “don’t be afraid” voice of his was helpful. But while I was on the phone, someone pulled up behind me and asked if I needed help. It was a mobile mechanic!

He worked on my car, trying several different things and it still would not start. But I was not worried. He replaced Spark plugs, still no start. Then he replaced wires. By this time I had been stalled and he had been working for about 2 ½ hours and I had this distinct feeling that “Ok, this has been long enough, time for the car to start”. So this time when he turned the key the car started. I had to pay him for his work but I still considered him an angel for being there when I needed help. Maybe Archangel Michael did help me get the car started by sending a mechanic.

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My apologies to Douglas Adams for the title of today’s post.
Have you ever thought about the meaning of life? I don’t mean to get real heavy on you today. This is Saturday after all.
When I was a teen, I asked my family what was the meaning of life and my sister-in-law piped up that it was to help people. That seemed like a strange answer to me and did not fit my life experiences. After all if that was the meaning of life, why were there so many people out there who needed help? If every one was helping then everyone should have all the help they could stand.
I wanted something deeper, more personal. You might say I have been searching for the meaning of life ever since. I suppose each of us finally settles on a meaning for our life. There probably is no one answer to this question, it is as varied as there are lives and some people give it a lot of thought and others see no reason to entertain the question.
I once heard a story about a little boy who came to kindergarten crying because his mother had lost his reason for being born (she had misplaced his birth certificate). How many of us have lost our reason for being born? Are we accomplishing what we came here for?
I think I am on track. I know I came here for a reason. But for some reason, I am not allowed to see the path clearly. Maybe if the path was well defined and I could see down the road clearly, I would be scared out of my wits. I know if I had known where life would have taken me so far, I would have been dreading the difficult spots and been too scared to go that route.
I guess I just have to live each day and see what happens and take the opportunities that present themselves. Maybe that is all any of us can do on this earth plane.

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February 2008, my husband lost his wedding ring. He had lost a lot of weight recently and his ring was looser but he had not thought it would just fall off. One cold day he was outside showing his Lincoln welder to a potential buyer. That evening he realized his ring was missing. We looked all through the house and could not find it.

During this time I was working with a friend who had a “Rife” machine. While working with the machine and a pendulum, I mentioned my husband’s ring and my friend told me about some one finding a bag of money with a pendulum. He then proceeded to ask questions with the pendulum and figured it was about 3 feet from the outside A/C unit.

It was 2 weeks before I could dig around the unit, but when I did I came up empty handed.

The side of the house the pendulum said the ring was on was covered with a good 4 –6 inches of leaves. So a ring could easily become hidden. I mentioned the findings to my husband. He thought it made sense that the ring could be in the side yard. This was an area of about 12 x 40 feet. I wanted to do my own pendulum check of the area but again I was not able to get to it immediately.

Several months past before I could get outside with my pendulum. I divided the side yard up into 4 x 4 foot squares and asked each square if the ring was there. I had one that was a maybe but one that was a definite yes. Then again it was another 2 weeks before I could get back out and dig.

When I finally made it out there the yes square was still yes. I divided that square into 4 squares and had a yes in one. Then I started digging through the leaves. On the 3^rd shovel I hit gold (ring that is). Yea I found it. I thanked my guides for leading me to it.

I showed my husband where I had found the ring and he pointed out that we had moved the outside condenser unit two years earlier and the spot was within 3 feet of where the unit had been.  Wow! I had not even thought of that and it made sense to me as time is of this physical world and not the spirit world.

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I have felt at least 3 energy shifts this year (2009).

One occurred in February. This may sound like an odd thing for a 50 year old to think but here goes. I shifted from a lifetime of feeling I was a child pretending to be an adult in an adult world and being afraid I would be found out, to feeling I was an adult and just as important and competent as the next person. That was a major shift and it came suddenly, but it also came with a lot of anguish, like giving birth.

A second one occurred in early October. All of a sudden I started feeling I could talk to people about what I did without feeling apologetic. A week later I even initiated conversations with 6 people at a networking meeting. This was something that use to be agonizing for me as people would look at me weird and I would feel like they were trying to get away from me. But now it was easy and felt normal and the people sounded interested and interesting. May be the feeling that they were trying to get away was just my projection on to them of my wanting to get away.

The third shift was about 10 days after the second one. That night I asked my guides to take me, help me and calm me as I had had many weeks of poor sleep because I would wake in the middle of the night in panic about money, bills etc. I woke the next morning after a restful night. I felt different. I felt that what was now important was my work, my actions, not my bank account. Money is not that important, it should not have such a control on me and I relinquished that control.

It is our society that places such a meaning on money. That will never do. We are not to be controlled by such a superficial idea. We are meant to live our lives and do what we came to this world to do. I am who I am not because of money but because of what I do, how I act, where I am lead and I must do what I am born to do and not be corrupted by the system.

Live a life of greater meaning and purpose.

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One morning while meditating I asked why does life have to be so difficult?

I heard back confusion on the word difficult, so I tried it another way. I asked about how things were so hard and then I heard an “Oh, you mean learning opportunities”

Then it was my turn to show confusion with a little exasperation.

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Several years ago, my husband had a “job from hell” in Houston for several weeks (that is how we refer to that job to this day, but that is another story). I drove to Houston with our 8 year-old son, so we could spend some time with him. Our son who was chunky at the time had out-grown his underwear and I had thrown them out instead of packing them. I told myself we could buy more on the way to Houston. Well I made a wrong turn and ended up going 50 miles in the wrong direction before I realized my mistake. This scenic detour really put me behind schedule. I really hate rush hour in Houston.

As I approached Houston, I started looking for a place to buy underwear. I soon realized I would be past the exit ramp before I would see a store. I did not want to drive on the feeder for miles and miles with all it stoplights, I was late enough as it was. This called for some guidance from some one who could see farther down the road than I could.

I said to my guides “please help me find a store with underwear that will fit Jesse. And you are going to have to tell me when to get off the freeway.” As we approached each exit ramp I asked, “do I get off here?” I finally felt a yes and I exited. As I sat at the stoplight, I looked around for a Target or a Wal-mart. But all that I saw was a strip center with a Men’s clothing store having a grand opening sale. I ignored the store and pulled back on the freeway I asked my guides “what was that all about? That was a men’s store” I heard back, “you asked for some thing to fit Jesse”. I then realized that maybe a mans small might have fit him, or maybe the store carried boy sizes. But it was too late I was back on the freeway.

I decided I needed to clarify what I wanted. Trying once again I said, “OK let me be a little clearer. I want a Target or a Wal-mart that will have boy size underwear”. I kept driving, again asking at each off ramp “here?” I then started testing what I was hearing. When I thought I heard a “get off”, I would stay on and start looking for a store and sure enough I would see one just over the next overpass.

I know I must have been frustrating my guides. Finally at one point before an exit ramp I heard a chorus of “GET OFF NOW”. “OK” I thought, “I’ll get off”. As I pulled up to the traffic light on the feeder, I started looking around. No Target, no Wal-mart. But I glanced up toward the freeway and saw cars coming to a screeching halt just on the other side of the overpass, out of view of the traffic on the freeway approaching the overpass. I said a quick thank you to my guides for getting me off before hitting that mess. I asked If I should get back on and I heard a “not yet” which I obeyed.

About 3 blocks down I found a Target where I did stop and found the underwear my son needed. I continued on to downtown.

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